Spring HATEOAS
1.3.0Spring HATEOAS provides some APIs to ease creating REST representations that follow the HATEOAS principle when working with Spring and especially Spring MVC. The core problem it tries to address is link creation and representation assembly.
Spring Boot Config
Spring Boot will do the following:
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Configure HAL support
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Register support for entity links
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Wire up message converter support.
Documentation
Each Spring project has its own; it explains in great details
how
you can use project features and what you can achieve with
them.
1.3.0 CURRENT GA | Reference Doc. | API Doc. |
1.4.0-SNAPSHOT SNAPSHOT | Reference Doc. | API Doc. |
1.3.1-SNAPSHOT SNAPSHOT | Reference Doc. | API Doc. |
1.2.6-SNAPSHOT SNAPSHOT | Reference Doc. | API Doc. |
1.2.5 GA | Reference Doc. | API Doc. |
1.1.5.BUILD-SNAPSHOT SNAPSHOT | Reference Doc. | API Doc. |
1.1.4.RELEASE GA | Reference Doc. | API Doc. |
A few examples to try out:
- Building a Hypermedia-Driven RESTful Web Service 15-30 minute guide to getting started with Spring HATEOAS.
- Building REST services with Spring Tutorial showing how to use Spring HATEOAS to leverage the concepts of REST.
- Spring HATEOAS Examples Repository of code samples used to build a flexible, backward compatible RESTful API.